i heard references to the fact that the defense budget is the bugaboo, but if you take a look at defense relative to gdp, you're looking a close to 9% being used on defense. we talk about cutting this expeditionary funding vehicle for the marines. the only problem is if you really believe in the marines, you have to get them from the ocean to the shore. i am not so sure that you have cut gdp for defense well, not quite in half, but in the meantime entitlement has gone from 2.5% to the other entitlements, well up 12%. putting them together, all of a sudden that is what our revenue is. seems to me that the elephant in the room is the entitlement. courageous leadership will acknowledge that fact and say let's have the conversation to talk about what we will do with those. we all know that they're talking about heavy cuts in discretionary, the tip of the iceberg. i guess it is disappointing to make the main subjects of the main subject. this phrase, the idea that we will somehow shocked a fragile recovery by cutting discretionary income assumes that the discretionary income somehow helps the